John Grisham's The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief Research In John Grisham’s book, the Pelican Brief, he writes about oil drilling harming the brown pelican which the reader can connect with the oil spills that are affecting the pelican as well. In the book, two supreme court justices are murdered. Darby Shaw, a law school student, decides to try and crack the case. She writes a brief that plants the murders on a man who owns an oil drilling company. Before, he had been in a lawsuit with Green Fund, who was trying to prevent him from drilling in Louisiana because it was harming the brown pelican. John Grisham was born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas (Bio.com). His father was a construction worker and homemaker, and they often moved because of his job (History). Grisham studied accounting at Mississippi State University, then law at University of Mississippi. He graduated in 1981 (Bio.com). Grisham was never too interested in writing until after he finished school. His first book
Being around other attorneys and things at his office that he encounters every day could have influenced the main idea of his book the Pelican Brief. He may have heard of other cases about endangered species that helped him write his book. Grisham grew up in Arkansas and went to school and worked in Mississippi (Bio.com). Both of these areas are around the area where the brown pelican lives and where the oil spill occurred. Many different things could have influenced Grisham’s writing. A reader can make a connection between Grisham’s life, the book, and the oil spills that are harming the brown pelican. The Pelican Brief relates to the real life crisis of the brown pelican becoming endangered because the oil spills are affecting them and their habitat. Grisham’s book is very popular worldwide, and can bring people to think about the pelican and the effects of oil companies and spills on the